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    Eros and socratic political philosophy
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2013.
    Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy offers a new account of Plato's view of eros, or romantic love, by focusing on a question which has vexed many scholars: why does Plato's Socrates praise eros highly on some occasions but also criticize it harshly on others? Through detailed analyses of Plato's Republic, Phaedrus, and Symposium, Levy shows how, despite the apparent tensions between Socrates' statements about eros in each dialogue, these statements supplement each other well and serve to cla…Read more
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    Essays on the History and Philosophy of Science by David B. Levy.
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    Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lindsay C. Watson
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 114 (1): 115-116. 2020.
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    Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition by Nurit Yaari
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 113 (1): 109-110. 2019.
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    From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. David M. Levy, who has lived his life between the "fast world" of high tech and the "slow world" of contemplation, offers a welcome guide to being more relaxed, attentive, and emotionally balanced while online. In a series…Read more
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    The Callicles colloquy of Plato’s Gorgias features both examination and ridicule. Insofar as Socrates’ examination of Callicles proceeds via the elenchus, the presence of ridicule requires explanation. This essay seeks to provide that explanation by placing the effort to ridicule within the effort to examine; that is, the judgment/pronouncement that something/ someone is worthy of ridicule is a proper part of the elenchic examination. Standard accounts of the Socratic elenchus do not include thi…Read more
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    Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore ed. by M. Rahim Shayegan
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 113 (4): 495-496. 2020.
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    Trevor Pinch’s Social Construction of Science and Technology Revisited
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 23 (1): 107-114. 2019.
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    Two prominent normative theories of business ethics are stakeholder and shareholder theory. Business ethicists generally favor the former, while business people prefer the latter. If the purpose of business ethics is “to produce a set of ethical principles that can be both expressed in language accessible to and conveniently applied by an ordinary business person” , then it is important to examine this dichotomy.While superficially attractive, the normative version of stakeholder theory contains…Read more
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    In Plato’s Gorgias, Socrates argues that philosophy is superior to rhetoric in part because the former is a techne while the latter is not. I argue that the Socratic practice of philosophy within this dialogue fails to qualify as a techne for exactly the same reasons that rhetoric fails to qualify as a techne. In doing so, I introduce a new kind of Socratic ignorance: methodological ignorance. I reject both Charles Kahn’s account of the relationship between the dialogue’s dramatic and philoso…Read more